Yet, the Goebbels version is being recognized as the one&only truth, and the killing of Polish officers has its high place in the list of Polish grudges - while the killing of ~20% of Polish population by the Germans isn't a big problem apparently. Moreover, Goebbels falsified evidence (basically any POW Polish officer name they could find was added to the list of victims), Yeltsin falsified evidence (package of Katyn documents contains numerous crude errors, down to people spelling their own names wrong and Party seals on NKVD documents), anybody who found any victims in the area either tried to hide em or declared them killed by whoever they disliked, etc.Īt this point the only thing that can be said about Katyn is that Soviets killed some Polish officers, Germans killed some Polish officers, and some Polish officers on the Katyn list survived. OTOH, various Soviet officials admitted at some points that at least some prisoners were executed for various crimes, and Soviets can't really provide an specific account on what exactly happened to the prisoners during the German invasion of 1941 (at the very least, Soviets let them fall into German hands). The Nazi/Polish version states that the executed victims were killed exactly the way Germans normally killed people because NKVD anticipated Germans invading a year later, finding the graves, and announcing it to the world, which is obviously beyond retarded. This a much more murky case, because the evidence has been falsified by everyone involved. Yet, everyone keeps blaming Stalin exclusively, as opposed to worldwide economic upheavals. They fail to explain how and why Stalin managed to also engineer hunger in neighboring Poland, in Kazakhstan and the Volga region, as well as how he was able to reach as far as India, engineer the Dust Bowl in the USA, etc. Ukranian nationalists keep insisting that hunger in the 30s was part of a devious conspiracy by Stalin to destroy the "independent Ukraine" (at that point Ukraine was part of Russia since 1654). To quote but two examples of history being twisted for political gain: It's nothing new, just surprising it was made the focus of an AAA title singleplayer. I guess this is the heritage of the aforementioned Cold War propaganda, the Nazi propaganda of WWII era, and the subsequent nationalistic smearing of the "old order" by the states that broke away from USSR influence. It's not just bias, its 70's Cold War Hollywood-style smearing in that COH2 campaign.
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